The English language encompasses a host of literary devices that make it so rich and expressive. They provide a broad structure under which all the types of literature are classified, studied, and understood. The importance of literature in the portrayal of human emotions is best understood by the application of these devices.

1. Demonstration
Teaching
By Judelyn D. Gutierrez

2. Good Morning!
Grade 9 - Amethyst

3. Today, let us all
remember.

4. “All our dreams can come
true, if we have the
courage to pursue them.”
—Walt Disney

5. Uncover the Words!

6. Directions: Solve the following
mathematical problems to uncover/get
the hidden words posted on the board.

7. 1. Ms. Cathy has 356 tomato plants. She
sells 91 of the plants and gives 49 of the
plants away. How many tomato plants
does Ms. Cathy have left?

8. Answer: 216 tomato plants

9. 2. A shelter is taking care of 384 cats. 176
more arrive. How many cats are in the
shelter now?

10. Answer: 560 cats

11. 3. There were 823 people attending a
soccer game after 37 people left. How
many people were at the game before
the people left.

12. Answer: 860

13. 4. Jason baked 93 cookies to sell at the
school bake sale. He plans to take home
whatever cookies he doesn’t sell. If he
sold 77 cookies, how many cookies will
he take home?

14. Answer: 16 cookies left

15. 5. Luz had two pages of homework. Each
page had five problems on it. How many
total problems did she have to complete?

16. Answer: 10

17. 6. Melanie has 8 colored pencils. 3 are
green, 2 are yellow, and 3 are blue. What
fraction of the pencils are blue.

18. Answer:
3
8

19. RESULT
Let’s Match Them!

20. RESULT
Directions: Match the given passages or
lines in Box A to the technique employed
in Box B.

21. RESULT

22. I make two people out of
one. What am I?

23. A Mirror

24. The English language encompasses a host of literary
devices that make it so rich and expressive. They
provide a broad structure under which all the types of
literature are classified, studied, and understood. The
importance of literature in the portrayal of human
emotions is best understood by the application of
these devices.

25. Literary Devices are
common structures used in
writing.

26. Types of Literary Devices

27. SIMILE is one of the most commonly used
literary devices; referring to the practice of
drawing parallels or comparisons between
two unrelated and dissimilar things, people,
beings, places, and concepts. They are marked
by the use of words “as” or “such as” or “like”.

28. Example:
He is like a mouse in front
of the teacher.

29. FORESHADOWING refers to the use of
indicative words/phrases and hints that set the
stage for a story to unfold and give the reader a hint
of something that is going to happen without
revealing the story or spoiling the suspense.
Foreshadowing is used to suggest an upcoming
outcome to the story.

30. Example:
He had no idea of the
disastrous chain of events to
follow.

31. RHYME is the practice of placing
rhyming words often at the end of the
lines in prose or poetry. It refers to the
corresponding of sounds between
words or the ending of words.

32. Example:
Roses are red (a)
Violets are blue (b)
Beautiful they all maybe (c)
But I love you (b)

33. REPETITION is just the simple
repetition of a word, within a sentence or
a poetical line, with no particular
placement of the words. This is such a
common literary device that it is almost
never even noted as a figure of speech.

34. Example:
O Captain! My Captain!

35. OXYMORON is a significant literary device as
it allows the author to use contradictory,
contrasting concepts placed together in a manner
that actually ends up making sense in a strange
and slightly complex manner. It helps to perceive
a deeper level of truth and explore different layers
of semantics while writing.

36. Example:
Sometimes we cherish
things of little value.
he possessed a cold fire in
his eyes.

37. METAPHOR is one of the most
extensively used by way of another. In a
metaphor, one subject is implied to be
another so as to draw a comparison
between their similarities and shared
traits.

38. Example:
Henry was a lion on the
battlefield.

39. Analyze the poem “The Road Not
Taken” by Robert Frost and
answer the questions that follows.
Then, identify the literary devices
used.

40. The poem was written by Robert
Frost and was published in 1961.
He the poem for his friend
Edward Thomas, as a joke. He
considers it a very tricky poem.

41. Robert Frost was a classical writer
who started writing at a young age
and became very popular during
his lifetime.

42. The Road Not Taken
by Robert Frost

43. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

44. Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

45. And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

46. I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

47. Stanza 1: What decision is the
speaker trying to make?
The speaker needs to choose
between two roads to travel.

48. Stanza 2: How does the speaker feel
about each road?
He thinks that both roads seem to
have equal value.

49. Stanza 3: Does the speaker think he
will be able to travel both
roads? Why or why not?
No, because he feels that he would
never be able to come back if he
chooses one.

50. Stanza 4: Which road does the
speaker choose to take?
He chose the road that less
traveled by.

51. Metaphor
road – life
fork on the road - choices we make to
determine the course of our lives
yellow woods - making decisions
during the hard times of a person’s
life

52. Simile
“as just as fair” – compared to
the other road

53. Repetition
“Somewhere ages and ages hence.”

54. Rhyme
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

55. Let’s Divide the Class!

56. The class will be divided into six (6) groups.
Each group will be assigned to one literary
device discussed. The group is to come up
with five examples for the literary device
assigned to them. Outputs will be written in
a manila paper.

57. Identify the literary device used in the
following lines lifted from Romeo and Juliet.
Write SIM for simile, MET for metaphor, OXY
for oxymoron, REP for repetition, RHY for
rhyme, and FOR for foreshadowing.

58. ___________1. Parting is such a sweet sorrow.
___________2. Oh loving hate!
___________3. Romeo, Romeo, where art thou Romeo?
___________4. My life is a foe of debt!
___________5. “And to ‘thy go like lightning”
___________6. Romeo: By some vile forfeit of the untimely
death
___________7. Prodigious birth of love is it to me, That I
must love a loathed enemy.